DC-link voltages balance method for single-phase NPC inverter operating with reactive power compensation
Autor: | Flavio Quizhpi, Julio Viola, Marco Fajardo, Jose M. Aller |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
business.industry
Computer science 020208 electrical & electronic engineering Photovoltaic system Electrical engineering Topology (electrical circuits) 02 engineering and technology AC power law.invention Compensation (engineering) Harmonic analysis Capacitor law 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Inverter 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing business Voltage |
Zdroj: | 2019 IEEE 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC). |
Popis: | Neutral point clamped (NPC) are one of the most used topologies for inverters in photovoltaic (PV) applications due to several operative advantages. The same hardware used for DC/AC conversion can be exploited to add reactive power compensation capabilities. In absence of PV generation (i.e. night hours) the DC link voltage have to be controlled by injecting or extracting active power to or from the DC link capacitors. While this technique is widely used in active power filters (APF) based on H-bridge inverters, the use of NPC inverters imposes a restriction due to potential imbalances in the voltages of DC-link capacitors, produced by DC components in the current of nonlinear loads being compensated. In this paper an analysis of DC currents effect is presented and an enabling method to allow reactive power compensation with single-phase NPC inverters is proposed and tested. |
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